José Ramírez’s home run in Game 5 of the American League Division Series was already one of the most memorable moments in recent Cleveland Guardians history. Now a fan has found a way to make it hit even harder. A video set to the iconic score from the movie Moneyball has been making the rounds on social media, and it is giving Guardians fans goosebumps all over again. The edit walks viewers through Ramírez’s swing against Sean Burke, the ball sailing over the right field wall and the eruption at Progressive Field that followed, all while the swelling music from the famous baseball film plays in the background.
The fan summed it up with a simple caption.
“Jose Ramirez x Moneyball,” alex posted.
Jose Ramirez x Moneyball 💥⚾️❤️💙 pic.twitter.com/g34UYy4dv2
— alex (@alexgeorgefilm) October 11, 2026
The pairing works for more reasons than one. Moneyball tells the story of the 2002 Oakland Athletics and general manager Billy Beane, who built a winner on one of the smallest budgets in baseball by finding value where other teams were not looking. The Guardians have built their current run in a very similar way, relying on player development and smart moves rather than big spending. Fittingly, three of the four teams remaining in this postseason, including Cleveland, have a combined payroll that is still smaller than the Dodgers’ payroll on its own.
There is also a Cleveland connection in the film itself. Early in the movie, Beane visits the Cleveland front office to work out a trade and meets the young analyst who would end up becoming his right hand man. Guardians fans also know that it was Cleveland that broke the record the 2002 A’s made famous, as the 2017 team won 22 straight games to surpass Oakland’s American League mark of twenty.
As for the swing itself, it might be the most important of Ramírez’s career. Ramírez reached down for a curveball just 0.74 feet off the ground and lifted it over the right field wall for a two run homer. According to Statcast, it was the lowest pitch hit for a home run in the postseason since pitch tracking began in 2008.
Those two runs were all Cleveland needed. Gavin Williams carried a no hitter into the sixth inning and struck out twelve, and the bullpen finished off a 2-0 win that sent the Guardians to the American League Championship Series. The homer also made Ramírez the first player in franchise history to go deep in back-to-back postseason games while facing elimination in both, after he hit a go-ahead homer in Game 4 in Chicago.
It capped one of the great comebacks in Cleveland history. The Guardians dropped the first two games of the series at home before winning three straight elimination games, becoming the first team in franchise history to rally from a 2-0 deficit. Ramírez, who has battled through the aftereffects of hand surgery since June, went 5-12 with two homers and seven RBIs over those final three games.
Moneyball ends with Beane’s team falling short of a championship. The Guardians are hoping their story has a different ending. Cleveland opens the best-of-seven ALCS against the Rays on Monday at 8 p.m. at Tropicana Field, and if Ramírez keeps delivering moments like this one, there could be plenty more videos like this coming.
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